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Starting September 30th, there's going to be a tsunami of Android users looking for an alternative system fleeing this developer verification malware.

In your opinion, are things like post market OS and the rest of the Linux phone ecosystem ready to take on these new users?

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[–] kittenzrulz123@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Not even remotely, even if Mobile Linux was good and viable the grand majority of disgruntled Android users aren't switching. Thats if it was good and viable which it isnt even remotely. Hardware support is poor, the software experience is extremely bad (yes I have actually used postmarketos), and overall its just not something that people are gonna want to use.

On September 30th when people look for alternatives they will find nothing and give up, if there was a viable alternative google wouldn't be doing this

[–] ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

E/os is fine. I just bank on a laptop since I deleted MicroG. Nobody has to do that though.

[–] Ghoelian@piefed.social 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

That's still just android though.

There are no better options that US carriers support afaik. I'm doing the best I can over here.

E/os is not bad. I'm way more comfortable with it than I was on my super googled Samsung spy machine.